WebSphere Application Server
fix packs and fixes
WebSphere Application Server Version 4.0 Fix Pack 6
Last updated: 05/19/2003

APAR/ Description Defect List

PQ47464		Errors occur when the deployed JAR file is changed and re-deployed	
PQ60026		The application server crashes on startup if the CICS Transaction Gateway is installed 
		or the LIBPATH setting is modified	
PQ65687		Security exceptions occur after the server reboots	
PQ65772		Using the Internet Inter-Orb Protocol tunneling, the second call causes a hang	
PQ66343		The appropriate constructor is not used to locate the class loader in all circumstances	
PQ66449		The authorization principal nulls out and causes authorization failure	
PQ67047		The attempts to modify the virtual host with wscp produces incomplete results	
PQ67088		Launch client does not clean up the temporary directory where the EAR files are expanded	
PQ67119		WebSphere Application Server, Version 3.5.6 does not start when the security is enabled 
		on an administrative agent server  	
PQ67297		SE_TABLE in the repository is not initialized correctly when you run DB2/390.SQL	
PQ67353		The administrative service terminates but the administrative server and application servers 
		run without problems	
PQ67409		The transaction manager must detect stale connections and retry	
PQ67443		Using the wscp command does not update the binding file under the installedApps\*.ear file	
PQ67481		The message in the application log when Apache is started from the services console makes a call to initialize twice	
PQ67483		Problems using keygenerator to create keys of 128 or 64 bytes	
PQ67535		StaleConnectionException is thrown when there are stable Java Database Connectivity connections 
		and you attempt a Java Naming and Directory Interface lookup	
PQ67679		When using a custom registry with the trust association, the API getRemoteUser() returns 
		the display name rather than the security name	
PQ67698		The nanny process on the Solaris Operating Environment stops for no reasons	
PQ67717		The hostname of the failing application server is not logged when error level of tracing is enabled	
PQ67809		The plug-in specific matching does not incorporate the virtual host score	
PQ67826		The network is unreachable because there is no SO_KEEP_ALIVE option for the object request broker	
PQ67828		The first attribute in the distinguished name is not searchable even it should be always searchable	
PQ67965		An application server error marking the clone down occurs when reading the post data from the client	
PQ67983		The JSPBatchCompiler takes hours to complete the WAR files that contain a large number of JavaServer Pages	
PQ68007		Cumulative session replication fixes for WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.3 and Version 4.0.4	
PQ68073		The German translation of  WebSphere Application Server, Version 4 InfoCenter is incorrect	
PQ68078		The Secure Association Service throws a NullPointerException when the credentials expire       	
PQ68115		Assigning users to a role takes an excessive amount of time if the number of users defined on the system is large	
PQ68216		The Common Gateway Interface script experiences 3 second delay (84424)  	
PQ68219		The Performance Monitoring Infrastructure code caches the invocation credential while LogInHelper tries to log in across the domain	
PQ68236		When one node of a two-node domain is down, the server group does not start	
PQ68430		The export of the EAR file does not show the correct file system as the node selected	
PQ68477		When KeepAlive is exceeded and shuts down the internal connections, it is propagating out to the external client Web server	
PQ68480		A deadlock condition can occur in the session manager under heavy load conditions	
PQ68505		Unable to connect a remote administrative client after applying the system management 
		cumulative interim fixes	
PQ68515		Removing EJB method causes the foreign keys to be nulled	
PQ68520		The precompiled JavaServer Page option on the Application Assembly Tool is only for WebSphere 
		Application Server Advanced Single Server Edition Version 4	
PQ68527		StringIndexOutOfBoundException is caused by an empty value of a cookie name	
PQ68542		The administrative server restarts application server but there is neither a crash nor a ping timeout	
PQ68550		The binary activity log files are not parsed correctly when opened by the JFace Log Analyzer on non-English locales	
PQ68569		A limit on the number of clones starting at one time exists	
PQ68580		The InfoCenter shows wrong information for the Java Database Connectivity driver installation	
PQ68634		Unable to view data source properties from the remote administrative console in WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.x	
PQ68660		XALan performance is slower in V2.2	
PQ68756		WebSphere Application Server Advanced Single Server Edition does not allow a user to define the file name or the location of the plug-in-cfg.xml file 
		when it is generated from the console	
PQ68774		Making XMLConfig to delegate the generation of plug-in configuration tasks to the administrative server	
PQ68820		The double slashes in the EAR file setting causes a FileNotFoundException during startup of WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.4	
PQ68882		If a user name or attributes in a distinguished name contain a comma, an open parentheses, or a close parentheses, the authorization for the distinguished name might fail	
PQ68922		Intermittent errors are encountered in the user authentication	
PQ68977		The ability to log is needed when an application leaks connections and the connection are left orphaned	
PQ69036		Applying 11.19 cumulative security interim fix on WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.4 causes SecJ0129A authorization failure 	
PQ69054		Memory leaks on SuSE Linux 390 when stress testing WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.5	
PQ69059		The default user ID and password for the data source should not be required	
PQ69070		When the customer has installed on a remote Web server, the installation does not install the uninstwas40.exe and setup.dll files	
PQ69078		Performance degrades after applying security cumulative interim fix from 10-07	
PQ69096		When an IllegalArgumentException is thrown, the default error page is not displayed and the error reporter displays the stack	
PQ69188		An unexpected login prompt is encountered when clicking the administrative console	
PQ69219		The administrative server starts from the command line but not from the Windows services	
PQ69242		Creating a clone on a new node does not start since the enterprise application name is changed on the second node	
PQ69244		A faster cleanup of the session references during the invalidation process needs to be performed	
PQ69273		Java.Util.ConcurrentModificationException is received during the plug-in regeneration	
PQ69333		Inconsistencies between certain wscp commands in the enterprise application, module, and the application server	
PQ69342		The command DrAdmin.sh -serverPort xxx -testVersions reports an incorrect output	
PQ69389		Generic XASession.close() closes nonxasession	
PQ69411		The diagnostic version of Java Secure Socket Extension shipped as default with WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.5                                                           	
PQ69512		The iPlanet Web server configures port 86 but the WebSphere plug-in code looks for requests on port 80	
PQ69563		SessionContextRegistry: Exception is thrown when there are more than 128 applications	
PQ69608		The plug-in does not fail over as expected when a proxy firewall is between the plug-in and the application server	
PQ69610		If a resource fails during an xa_end call, a spurious retry thread is spawned               	
PQ69630		The error from the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure is due to an incompatibility in the Software Development Kit	
PQ69643		The authorization failures are forwarded from an unprotected servlet or JavaServer Page to a protected one	
PQ69688		The keystore has a bad serialized object	
PQ69732		The administrative server does not reconnect to the running application servers	
PQ69737		A deadlock in the connection manager code that causes a large number of threads in the CreateOrWaitForConnection() method 
		causes the application server to hang	
PQ69803		The Tivoli performance viewer does not close properly when it is opened for replaying the log files	
PQ69855		The XML export through the console does not output correctly the LDAP-BINDDNLINE in a single line so an import fails	
PQ69895		WebSphere Application Server ignores the attribute name inside the  tag when generating the Java file for a JavaServer Page	
PQ69951		WebSphere Application Server does not bind the object request broker communication ports to a particular IP address or hostname when they 
		are specified  	
PQ69956		Dr. Admin utilizes LOCALHOST as the Dr. Admin host when starting the administrative server but not the virtual IP address or host specified	
PQ69978		The wscp tool tries to deploy an EAR file with two different hosts	
PQ69994		After upgrading WebSphere Application Server, Version 4, the EAR deployment fails with DuplicateKeyExceptions	
PQ70014		Attempting to open a connection to SequeLink server without unlocking the driver	
PQ70020		When an additional cookie is called JSessionID, the plug-in is unable to distinguish the correct value	
PQ70037		The plug-in currently opens a new connection with the application server or every post request as the result of a timing issue	
PQ70054		ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occurs intermittently	
PQ70065		DeploymentDescriptorLoadException is thrown while loading a WAR file deployed on Distributed File Service	
PQ70085		If the application server is started, the Web modules sometimes are started before the enterprise beans JARs are started	
PQ70121		java.lang.nullPointerException error occurs on WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.4 after the cumulative security interim fix is installed 	
PQ70127		WebSphere Application Server Lightweight Directory Access Protocol system hangs during the user authentication using Secure Socket Layer	
PQ70148		During the migration from WebSphere Application Server, Version 3.5 to Version 4, NullPointerException is thrown when an application server is 
		cloned but none of the child objects are cloned	
PQ70165		The following exception is written in the stdout file: PLGN0006E: illegal use of OSEListenerDispatcher by the plug-in	
PQ70202		WebSphere Application Server throws the 500 errors when attempting to handle requests	
PQ70205		WebSphere Application Server fails to handle post requests when the post data are sent in time intervals greater than the connection timeout	
PQ70246		When customer valueUnbound() method causes a run-time exception, invalidation thread sleeps and causes delay in invalidation	
PQ70257		In multi-node, clients hang much longer than the normal TCP/IP timeout if they are unexpectedly unable to communicate to the remote server	
PQ70342		The Fix Pack 4.0.5 fails when installing on AIX machines from a Network File System mount	
PQ70364		The performance degrades while using 64-bit oracle 9 R1 for the administrative repository on WebSphere Application Server 
		Advance Edition, Version 4.0.4	
PQ70391		When an application server fails during initialization, the administrative server might restart it continuously	
PQ70410		GetResource or GetResourceASSTREAM fails on Windows platforms when the resource is held in a directory	
PQ70472		When choosing to install only the administrative console, you do not get all the required files to run XMLConfig	
PQ70491		The client application using WebSphere Application Server SOAP.jar file drops cookies	
PQ70535		The classloader takes a long time to load classes from the JAR files with internal dependencies	
PQ70564		NullPointerException is thrown when attempting to clear the cache using DynaCache APIs	
PQ70596		The administrative server uses the old application server Secure Socket Layer port when the application server is restarted  	
PQ70602		StringIndexOutOfBounds exception occurs upon the administrative server startup after the upgrade to Fix Pack 5	
PQ70608		Generic Java Message Service provider extended architecture resource memory leak	
PQ70620		The plug-in considers the Web URLs to be case sensitive while the URLs should not be case sensitive	
PQ70734		Java.Lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundException is thrown while running a JavaServer Page in the debug mode	
PQ70811		The MIGR0250W message indicates only 300 files copied but DocumentRootLimit in WebSphere Application Server is configured 
		to copy more than 300	
PQ70860		Problems administering data sources when a node is down	
PQ70895		Web container attempts to read the post data after IO timeout	
PQ70906		Problem starting wscp after applying 02-05-03 system management cumulative interim fix on WebSphere Application Server, 
		Version 4.0.5	
PQ70960		XMExport using wscp fails to export everything 	
PQ70962		The request fails with error 404 but a status of 200 is logged in the Internet Information Services access log	
PQ70971		Using Domino as Web sever, HTTP terminates when data exceeds 64K	
PQ70975		The default setting for the HTTP transport in WebSphere Application Server, Version 4 is set too low	
PQ71136		When WebSphere Studio Application Developer calls JASPERUTIL.jsp to Java, any tag library JARs used by a JavaServer Page 
		becomes locked	
PQ71152		Cannot connect with wscp to process in a different domain	
PQ71169		The EAR uninstallation does not remove the Java Naming and Directory Interface bindings from the repository	
PQ71171		Web modules are loaded before the EJB modules at startup	
PQ71200		Transaction timeout exception is not reported to the EJB client	
PQ71310		getName() in getUserPrincipal() might not return the right security name during an EJB call	
PQ71315		NullPointerException occurs when using 4.0 PMIClient to get the performance management data from the WebSphere Application 
		Server, Version 3.5.6 	
PQ71397		The administrative server tries to use the expired tokens from the cache	
PQ71416		If a distinguished name contains the special character number, the user might not be authenticated or authorized properly	
PQ71533		After the removal of a node, the node information is not removed from the WLMBOOTSRVR_TABLE	
PQ71534		The node entries are not removed from the BindingBeanTBL after a node removal	
PQ71542		Memory to memory replication client or server partial partitioning fix	
PQ71645		The duplicate key exceptions are thrown in the compliance mode when an existing session is requested	
PQ71704		Sorting the records on the Target_ID column in the Rel_Instance_Table repository table	
PQ71785		The WebSphere Application Server Advanced Single Server Edition administrative console fails to work properly with the Java virtual 
		machine setting UTF-8 on non-English machines	
PQ71856		Minor performance degradation in the plug-in	
PQ71897		When a fix or fix pack is installed, removed and installed again, the product.xml file shows "-1 errors were noted"	
PQ72044		If the system management cumulative fix is applied, the wscp enterprise application installation changes the permission 
		of the original EAR file to be owned by the root	
PQ72069		Modifying the plug-in to allow the configuration option for the source of the port number to be sent to the application 
	server for redirects	
PQ72138		KeyManagerFactory cannot get the KeyManager in WebSphere Application Server, Version 4.0.5	
PQ72192		Problem exists for session persistence with clones using the type 4 JDBC driver to the MS SQL server	
PQ72193		When data are sent by a client using HTTP post, read by a servlet using request reader and then forwarded to 
		a JavaServer Page, IllegalStateException is thrown	
PQ72194		ExceptionUtil X CNTR0020E is thrown when installing a new EAR file	
PQ72286		An invalid error number is reported by the Open Servlet Engine plug-in on the Solaris Operating Environment	
PQ72357		The authorization fails without being challenged	
PQ72384		When using getMetaData() on the connection, the user get an XAerror on the next transaction start	
PQ72406		The unexpected connection is closed due to an incorrect orphan timeout	
PQ72416		The InfoCenter states in section 3.2.4 that for migration purposes the 3.x and 4.x plug-in can coexist when 
		it should say 3.5.x	
PQ72468		CLI0115E exception appears in the tracefile after cumulative system management	
PQ72524		Errors are not written to the log file when deploying a WAR file in WebSphere Application Server 
		Advanced Single Server Edition
PQ72578		The JavaServer Page and servlet caching stops and WebSphere Application Server must be restarted                                              	
PQ72595		The InfoCenter instruction is incorrect for the remote server plug-in configuration	
PQ72692		The WebSphere Application Server, Version 4 InfoCenter installation instructions do not include the instructions 
		for the remote Web server plug-in installation	
PQ72752		The Readme file packaged with Fix Pack 5 does not warn customers that changes in the bin directory 
		are overwritten and also does not clarify the location to run the uninstallation
PQ72861		The log file is required to be opened sooner for problems encountered during startup  	
PQ72869		Configuration options are needed to disable TCP nagling	
PQ72899		Restarting the application server fails after adding the performance monitor parameter	
PQ72942		JSAS0070E and JSAS0200E errors occur after the administrative server runs for an hour	
PQ72990		Trying to create a new name pair under a system properties Java virtual machine tab in the Web console                   	
PQ73231		ClassNotFound Exception occurs while creating the Sybase data source on WebSphere Application 
		Server, Version 4.0.4 and Version 4.0.5                     	
PQ73233		The export or import fails in programs written using XMLConfig APIs       	
PQ73351		The administrative server throws an ObjectNotFoundException and non-application while processing 
		method findRepositoryObjectByName	
PQ73365		Add support for AIX 5.2	
PQ73366		Add support for z/OS Lightweight Directory Access Protocol security server	
PQ73368		Add support for Sybase 12.5	
PQ73369		Add support for Linux SuSE SLES 8.0	
PQ73370		Add support for Transport Layer Mutual Authentication	
PQ73479		Reading the response body in 64k chunks causes performance issues for large response bodies	
PQ73844		wscp with PQ60191 reports incorrect return codes of RC=0 even though the command does not succeed	
PQ73845		The Internet Information Services Web server locks up and receives 404 errors in the Windows 2000 platforms 
		when AddHeader and SetHeader fail	
PQ73846		The performance degradation is caused by a massive amount of IO disk calls because the system does not 
		conduct write operation caching	
PQ73847		BeanNotReentrantException is thrown incorrectly 	
PQ73877		A long redirect URL string returns a blank page in the browser instead of the correct HTTP 
		redirect response	
PQ73964		The remote administrative console does not show up the correct status after performing operations 
		like stop and start on the application server                            	
PQ74206		The intermittent 500 errors are returned to the client browser	
PQ74207		The session manager initialization does not complete properly because of the unavailability of the 
		database connections	
		
	

IBM HTTP Server Defects

Apar/ Description Defect List

PQ68422		After adding the WebSphere Application Server plug-in module using the IBM HTTP Server 
		administrative console, the Web server fails to start with an error message         	
PQ65862		Adding modules through the IBM HTTP Server administrative console incorrectly alters HTTPD.C  \	
PQ66116		IBM HTTP Server 1.3.12: Changes in the administrative console cause configuration errors  	
PQ66409		Dr Watson occurs on the Apache.exe file running Secure Socket Layer	
PQ67079		Multiple minor security issues reported to APACHE CAN-2002-0839 AND CAN-2002-0840   	
PQ67455		Linux IKEYMAN: ACCESS_VIOLATION occurs when exiting the administrative console	
PQ67486 	The message Start request failed!  Check error logs! is displayed in the administrative console    	
PQ68216		Common Gateway Interface script experiences 3 seconds delay (84424)  	
PQ68697		Fix for PQ68697 and PQ67461